Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current
Abstract More than a century after the sinking of the Titanic, scientists and historians are still trying to understand what happened on that fateful night. New hypotheses, including the one that declares a Fata Morgana type mirage was involved in both the collision with the iceberg and the failed c...
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crwiley:10.1002/wea.3243 2024-06-02T08:02:15+00:00 Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current Zinkova, Mila 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wea.3243 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fwea.3243 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wea.3243 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Weather volume 74, issue 4, page 119-128 ISSN 0043-1656 1477-8696 journal-article 2018 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3243 2024-05-03T11:04:34Z Abstract More than a century after the sinking of the Titanic, scientists and historians are still trying to understand what happened on that fateful night. New hypotheses, including the one that declares a Fata Morgana type mirage was involved in both the collision with the iceberg and the failed communications between the Titanic and the Californian, are being introduced on a regular basis. This article is the first in a four‐part series that examines the mirage theory of the Titanic disaster. In this part, a few ways in which a temperature inversion (which is required for a mirage to form) could have developed at the site of the disaster at the time of the collision and subsequent sinking are explored. A high‐pressure cell, an icy river of melt‐water and the Gulf Stream are all examined as factors that could have contributed to the formation of an inversion. It is demonstrated that the development of a steep temperature inversion at the wreck site, though rather unlikely, cannot be excluded completely. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Iceberg* Wiley Online Library Arctic Icy River ENVELOPE(-108.502,-108.502,64.551,64.551) Weather 74 4 119 128 |
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Abstract More than a century after the sinking of the Titanic, scientists and historians are still trying to understand what happened on that fateful night. New hypotheses, including the one that declares a Fata Morgana type mirage was involved in both the collision with the iceberg and the failed communications between the Titanic and the Californian, are being introduced on a regular basis. This article is the first in a four‐part series that examines the mirage theory of the Titanic disaster. In this part, a few ways in which a temperature inversion (which is required for a mirage to form) could have developed at the site of the disaster at the time of the collision and subsequent sinking are explored. A high‐pressure cell, an icy river of melt‐water and the Gulf Stream are all examined as factors that could have contributed to the formation of an inversion. It is demonstrated that the development of a steep temperature inversion at the wreck site, though rather unlikely, cannot be excluded completely. |
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Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current |
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Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current |
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